Diego Velasco
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Biography
Writer/Director Diego Velasco was born in the US and raised in Venezuela. His first feature, La Hora Cero (The Zero Hour) broke all Venezuelan Box Office records and garnered 35 festival awards. The Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Magazine called it “rare and special: an intelligent, finely constructed and wonderfully acted feature with a subversive message and a sting in the tail.” Velasco’s next feature, The Whistler, is a thriller based on the Venezuelan legend of the same name, and was written by his wife and frequent collaborator, Carolina Paiz (Orange Is the New Black / Narcos) and is pr…
The Whistler
2026 · Director
The Whistler
2026 · Writer
The Whistler
2026 · Producer
Social Distance
2020 · Co-Executive Producer
Teenage Bounty Hunters
2020 · Director
Diary of a Future President
2020 · Director
Orange Is the New Black
2013 · Director
Cybergeddon
2012 · Director
The Zero Hour
2010 · Director
The Zero Hour
2010 · Writer
Cédula ciudadano
2000 · Director
Cédula ciudadano
2000 · Writer
The Whistler
Director
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